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By Let Grow

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Practical Tips to Get Your Kids Outside: Part 2

Recently we published the first of our reader suggestions for how to get your kids outside -- to play, to explore, to draw, to not think the only fun place...
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By Let Grow

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How Parents & Teachers Can Help Anxious Kids: Dealing with Discomfort is the Secret Sauce

Today’s Let Grow webinar features Doctors Camilo Ortiz and Regine Galanti discussing techniques to lower anxiety among kids (which sometimes requires lowering anxiety among us adults). Tune in at 12:30...
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Freaky Friday: Mom Asks Kids to Switch Roles with Her

Today's guest post comes to us from Patricia Frazer, a mom in Ireland who decided to see how the other half lives -- the other half being her kids. Her...
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By Let Grow

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Let Grow Presents: PRACTICAL TIPS TO GET YOUR KIDS TO PLAY OUTSIDE

Recently we posted a note from William Fugate, the Ohio dad of a girl, 5, and toddler son. He’d just read Free-Range Kids and now wanted to encourage his daughter's...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Tell Us How You Let Your Kid Do Something on Their Own — and Win $100!

Our Let Grow Independence Challenge ends on Wednesday. As with most things in life, you gotta be in it to win it! Win $100 just by telling us HOW YOU...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Let’s Hear It For Sittervising!

The Scary Mommy site is always on top of the parenting trends and its latest find is “Sittervising.” The not-exactly-groundbreaking idea is for a parent to SIT while their kid...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Dare You Not to Smile!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIkHCNDd7wk&t=13s Not sure anyone can watch this video of "loose parts" free play at a school in Portland, Oregon, and not smile. Look how the kids are SO ALIVE, so...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Laundry Advice from a College President: Start Sooner

A college president and college professor find themselves all too familiar with the granular back-and-forthing on Facebook forums for parents of students at their institutions. And in an article in...
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By Let Grow

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PARENTS and KIDS: OUR INDEPENDENCE CHALLENGE CONTINUE$! YOU CAN STILL ENTER TO WIN!

Wow us some more, folks! The Let Grow Independence Challenge continues this week, two ways: Calling all parents! First, we want to hear from you PARENTS! Enter here to tell...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Save The Sleepover!

Sleeping bags and tents outside? Pillows and blankets inside? Either way, there is something thrilling and fulfilling about a sleepover. It's like a playdate on steroids! (Though...perhaps that shouldn't be...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Suggestions Needed! Dad Asks What Books and Activities Will Make His Kid Curious, Active & Independent?

Got this letter today and decided to crowd source it! Please send your suggestions to Info@LetGrow.org and we will edit them down and share right here, along with our own!...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Another Kid Lost at the Airport — With a Twist

The other day when a mom named Katy told us about losing her daughter at Newark Airport -- and then finding her -- we got a wonderful mix of advice...
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